Living a life of gratitude & simplicity. Seeking beauty in the world around me. Discovering gifts of God's handiwork by opening my eyes to really see, my heart to really feel & my mind to really drink in the beauty of creation. Learning to breathe deeply & just "Be" in the presence of God, in my attempts to capture grace, frame by frame...

Friday, January 15, 2010

speak any second? I know the feeling. I have felt that way many times before.

It is only after careful consideration of all the "things" in my everyday life that clutter up my mind that, I am able totake a deep breath & stop for a moment...even if it means

dragging my feet on the asphalt to

come to a screeching halt, that I

realize how much more is going on in the world around me than

just the menagarie in my head.

Every day new life has made its way into the world through the birth of a new-born child.Everyday there are occasions to stop and spend a moment in quiet meditation...to give true thankfulness for the gifts so freely bequeathed unto me.

Everywhere I look around me, there are blessings that I don't deserve, yet still were graciously bestowed upon me by my heavenly Father.

He alone, can stop my mind from spinning out of control...from seeing

only the spiraling & reeling back & forth between the known &the unknown-which leads to